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Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Jobseeker's Allowance Eligibility (1 Oct 2013)

Joan Burton: The jobseeker's benefit and jobseeker’s allowance schemes provide income support for people who have lost work and are unable to find alternative full-time employment. The Revised Estimates for the Department provide for expenditure on the jobseeker’s schemes of €3.66 billion in 2013. Legislation provides that a person must satisfy the conditions of being available for...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Employment Rights Issues (1 Oct 2013)

Joan Burton: The purpose of the insolvency payments scheme, which operates under the Protection of Employees (Employers’ Insolvency) Act, 1984, which, in turn, derives from EU Council Directive 987/80, is to protect certain outstanding pay-related entitlements due to employees in the event of the insolvency of their employer. These entitlements include wages, holiday pay, sick pay, payment in lieu...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Appeals (1 Oct 2013)

Joan Burton: The Social Welfare Appeals Office has advised me that an appeal by the person concerned was registered in that office on 30 July 2013. It is a statutory requirement of the appeals process that the relevant Departmental papers and comments by the Deciding Officer on the grounds of appeal be sought. When these have been received from the Department, the case in question will be referred to an...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Invalidity Pension Appeals (1 Oct 2013)

Joan Burton: The Social Welfare Appeals Office has advised me that an appeal by the person concerned was registered in that office on 12 September 2013. It is a statutory requirement of the appeals process that the relevant Departmental papers and comments by the Deciding Officer on the grounds of appeal be sought. When these have been received from the Department, the case in question will be referred...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Invalidity Pension Appeals (1 Oct 2013)

Joan Burton: The Social Welfare Appeals Office has advised me that an appeal by the person concerned was registered in that office on 27 August 2013. It is a statutory requirement of the appeals process that the relevant Departmental papers and comments by the Deciding Officer on the grounds of appeal be sought. When these have been received from the Department, the case in question will be referred to...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Disability Allowance Appeals (1 Oct 2013)

Joan Burton: The Social Welfare Appeals Office has advised me that an appeal by the person concerned was registered in that office on 4 September 2013. It is a statutory requirement of the appeals process that the relevant Departmental papers and comments by the Deciding Officer on the grounds of appeal be sought. When these have been received from the Department, the case in question will be referred...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Unemployment Benefit Issues (1 Oct 2013)

Joan Burton: The jobseeker's benefit and jobseeker’s allowance schemes provide income support for people who have lost work and are unable to find alternative full-time employment. The Revised Estimates for the Department provide for expenditure on the jobseeker’s schemes of €3.66 billion in 2013. The social security rights of workers and their families moving within the EU are dealt...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Farm Assist Scheme Payments (1 Oct 2013)

Joan Burton: The farm assist scheme is based on jobseeker’s allowance. It was introduced in 1999 to replace ‘Smallholders Unemployment Assistance’ for low income farmers, without the requirement to be available for and genuinely seeking work. The Revised Estimates for the Department provide for expenditure on the farm assist scheme of €99.45m in 2013. Payments received...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Invalidity Pension Appeals (1 Oct 2013)

Joan Burton: The Social Welfare Appeals Office has advised me that an appeal by the person concerned was registered in that office on 9 September 2013. It is a statutory requirement of the appeals process that the relevant Departmental papers and comments by the Deciding Officer on the grounds of appeal be sought. When these have been received from the Department, the case in question will be referred...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Back to Education Allowance Payments (1 Oct 2013)

Joan Burton: The back to education allowance scheme (BTEA) supports persons who have been in receipt of a social protection payment to pursue full-time courses of education at second level and courses to higher diploma level in any discipline and to a Professional Diploma in Education (level 8 in National Framework of Qualifications (NFQ) in third level colleges. Other postgraduate qualifications...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Departmental Staff Data (1 Oct 2013)

Joan Burton: There are currently twenty one Medical Assessors, including the Chief Medical Advisor (CMA) and Deputy Chief Medical Advisor (DCMA), who conduct medical assessments across the range of my Department's illness related schemes. Medical Assessors (MA) are fully qualified and experienced practitioners who provide a second opinion to that of the person’s own doctor. Their assessments...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Invalidity Pension Application Numbers (1 Oct 2013)

Joan Burton: Invalidity pension is a payment for people who are permanently incapable of work due to illness or injury and who satisfy the PRSI contribution conditions. It is essentially a demand-led scheme and the number of claims awarded and disallowed in any year reflects the extent to which the claims received satisfied the statutory conditions for receipt of invalidity pension. The information you...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Fraud Data (1 Oct 2013)

Joan Burton: Fraud and error surveys are an integral part of the Department’s overall approach to control and tackling social welfare fraud. The current rolling schedule of fraud and error surveys of social welfare schemes, as set out in the Fraud Initiative, is considered by the Department to be a very important tool for estimating the risk and developing policy measures to tackle fraud and error...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Departmental Expenditure (1 Oct 2013)

Joan Burton: The Department’s control work is measured in terms of control savings. Control savings are used as a performance indicator for year-on-year activities and are an estimate of the value of the various control activities across the schemes in payment. They refer to future expenditure that would have been incurred but for this control work. Without this control work the social welfare...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Family Income Supplement Applications (1 Oct 2013)

Joan Burton: The Family Income Supplement (FIS) is designed to provide support for people with families who are on low earnings. The person concerned is currently in receipt of FIS and recently applied to have their payment renewed. The renewal application has been processed and payment of FIS has been renewed for the person concerned in respect of family of 5 children, at the weekly rate of €341...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Regulatory Impact Assessment Data (1 Oct 2013)

Joan Burton: I have initiated six Bills since taking office, all of which have been enacted. Details of these Acts are set out in the following table. Regulatory Impact Assessments (RIAs) are not ordinarily undertaken in relation to the package of measures announced in the annual Budget Day Statements or similar packages of measures. Accordingly, a RIA was not considered necessary in the case of the...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Domiciliary Care Allowance Applications (26 Sep 2013)

Joan Burton: An application for domiciliary care allowance was received from the person concerned on the 17th June 2013. The application was disallowed as it was considered that the child does not meet the eligibility criteria for the allowance. A letter issued on the 19th July 2013 advising of the decision. In the case of an application which is refused on medical grounds the applicant may submit...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals Issues (26 Sep 2013)

Joan Burton: The Social Welfare Appeals Office has advised me that the representations submitted by the Deputy have been accepted as grounds of appeal in respect of the person concerned. It is a statutory requirement of the appeals process that the relevant Departmental papers and comments by the Deciding Officer on the grounds of appeal be sought. When these have been received from the Department, the...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Job Initiatives (26 Sep 2013)

Joan Burton: JobsPlus which was launched on 8th July 2013, is a new incentive to encourage employers to recruit and employ persons who have been unemployed for long periods. This incentive replaced this Department’s Employer Job PRSI Incentive Scheme and Revenue’s Job Assist Scheme. Subject to meeting the eligibility criteria and creating a full-time position, employers will receive a...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Job Initiatives (26 Sep 2013)

Joan Burton: The following are the projected costs at the time of the implementation of the measures in July 2011: Measure Yield/Cost 2011 €m Yield/Cost Full Year €m Halving of the lower rate of PRSI until end 2013 on jobs that pay up to €356 per week -85 In 2012: -190 In 2013: -183 In 2014: -15 Abolition of employer PRSI on share based remuneration -9.5 -17.7 in each year...